Frequently Asked Questions

All patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Barrett’s oesophagus will be invited to participate in this registry. To minimise bias all patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be invited to participate.

Participating public hospitals are:

• Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital,
• Royal Perth Hospital
• Fiona Stanley Hospital
• Fremantle Hospital
• Osborne Park Hospital
• Rockingham General Hospital
• Kalamunda Health Service
• Bentley Hospital

• Patients 18 years of age or older
• Diagnosis of Barrett’s oesophagus
  • Endoscopic observation of Barrett’s oesophagus (salmon-colour mucosal area of at least 1 cm above the gastro-oesophageal junction) with a histological confirmation of intestinal metaplasia from the biopsy collected during the endoscopy procedure.

If you are working in the participating hospital, contact the PI (below), alternatively you can contact the registry coordinator

• RPH: Prof Krish Ragunath
• SCFH and PHC: Dr Spiro Raftopoulos spiro.raftopoulos@health.wa.gov.au
• FSH: Dr Michael Ma michael.ma@health.wa.gov.au
• PathWest: Prof Priyanthi Kumarasinghe Priyanthi.Kumarasinghe@health.wa.gov.au
• Bentley and Kalamunda: Dr Sherman Picardo sherman.picardo@health.wa.gov.au
• Osborn park: Dr Hooi Ee hooi.ee@health.wa.gov.au
• Fremantle and SJOG Mt Lawley: Dr Anurag Goel anurag.goel@health.wa.gov.au
• Rockingham: Dr Adiran McElholm adrian.mcelholm@health.wa.gov.au
• Armadale: Dr Atul Sinha atul.sinha@health.wa.gov.au
• SJOG Midland: Dr Jee Kong Jee.kong@health.wa.gov.au
• SJOG Subiaco: Dr Sam Rao sam.rao@health.wa.gov.au
• SJOG Murdoch: Dr Sanjeeva Kariyawasam Sanjeeva.Kariyawasam@health.wa.gov.au
• Hollywood: Dr Niroshan Muwanwella niroshan.muwanwella@health.wa.gov.au

Informed consent will be obtained from all eligible patients before they can be entered in this registry. Their treating specialist or an approved delegate will take the consent. The consent forms, along with any paper-based records, will be securely retained on site in locked cabinets.

To withdraw from the registry, a participant may contact a member of the study team who will

document that a participant would like to withdraw from the registry. Contact may be in writing or

by telephone. A participant does not have to provide a reason for withdrawing from this registry.